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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
71,476 approved · 10,149 refused · 6,436 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Jun 1995 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
8 Widcombe Crescent, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6AH
Received 19 Aug 202677 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 19 Aug 202677 Lyncombe Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4PH
Received 19 Aug 202647 St John's Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6PZ
Received 19 Aug 2026Theatre Royal, Sawclose, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1ET
Received 14 Aug 2026Warleigh Manor House, Warleigh Lane, Bathford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8EE
Received 19 Aug 202647 Fairfield Park Road, Fairfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6JP
Received 20 Aug 202631 Powlett Road, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6QL
Received 20 Aug 20261 Paulton Road, Hallatrow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 6EG
Received 20 Aug 20265 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 20 Aug 20267 Combe Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5HX
Received 20 Aug 20269 Barnfield Way, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7PW
Received 20 Aug 20267 North Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5DE
Received 20 Aug 202618 Bloomfield Park, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2BY
Received 20 Aug 20269 Percy Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AR
Received 20 Aug 20269 Percy Place, Lambridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 6AR
Received 20 Aug 202676 Cranmore Place, Odd Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2UP
Received 20 Aug 2026Georges House, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 20 Aug 2026101 Penn Lea Road, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3RQ
Received 21 Aug 2026Prior Park Garden Centre , Prior Park Road, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4NF
Received 21 Aug 2026The Boater , 9 Argyle Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BQ
Received 21 Aug 2026Palmitos , 41 Flatwoods Road, Claverton Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7AQ
Received 21 Aug 2026Primrose Hill Farm, Primrose Hill, Upper Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2UT
Received 21 Aug 2026Sunny Acres , Woollard Lane, Publow, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS14 0QT
Received 21 Aug 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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